[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-pages 3.26-1
Guillaume ALAUX
guillaume at archlinux.org
Wed Sep 8 03:46:04 EDT 2010
On 7 September 2010 21:31, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> Upstream update + include again some section 2 pages that were part of
> module-init-tools in the past. Fixes #20645.
>
> -Andy
>
> ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.26 ====================
>
> Released: 2010-09-04, Munich
>
>
> Contributors
> ------------
>
> The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
> been incorporated in changes in this release:
>
> Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>
> Brian Sutin <Brian.Sutin at hs.utc.com>
> Denis Barbier <bouzim at gmail.com>
> Guillem Jover <guillem at hadrons.org>
> Jianhua Li <jhlicc at gmail.com>
> Linus Nilsson <lajnold at gmail.com>
> Lenaic Huard <lenaic.huard at laposte.net>
> mac at mcrowe.com
> Martin Schulze <joey at infodrom.org>
> Maxin John <maxin.john at gmail.com>
> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages at gmail.com>
> Nicholas Hunt <nhunt at cs.washington.edu>
> Peng Haitao <penght at cn.fujitsu.com>
> Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>
> Przemyslaw Szczepaniak <Przemyslaw.Szczepaniak at imgtec.com>
> Scott Walls <sawalls at umich.edu>
> TAN Yee Fan <tanyeefa at comp.nus.edu.sg>
> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu at intel.com>
> Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org>
> Yuri Kozlov <yuray at komyakino.ru>
>
> Apologies if I missed anyone!
>
> Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> eventfd.2
> Michael Kerrisk
> Document EFD_SEMAPHORE
> Document the EFD_SEMAPHORE flag, added in kernel 2.6.30.
> Also restructured some parts of the text to fit with the
> addition of the EFD_SEMAPHORE text.
>
>
> Global changes
> --------------
>
> getaddrinfo.3
> getipnodebyname.3
> st.4
> Michael Kerrisk
> s/logical OR/bitwise OR/
>
>
> Changes to individual pages
> ---------------------------
>
> clock_nanosleep.2
> Michael Kerrisk
> Fix discussion of return value when interrupted by a signal
>
> epoll_ctl.2
> Yuri Kozlov
> Small fix to types in data structures
>
> eventfd.2
> Alexander Shishkin
> Clarified close-on-exec behavior
>
> madvise.2
> Michael Kerrisk
> Improve discussion of MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
>
> mkdir.2
> Michael Kerrisk
> Add EMLINK error to ERRORS
>
> mq_getsetattr.2
> mq_close.3
> mq_getattr.3
> mq_notify.3
> mq_send.3
> mq_unlink.3
> Lnac Huard
> Fix return type in SYNOPSIS (s/mqd_t/int/)
>
> recv.2
> send.2
> Michael Kerrisk
> Remove obsolete reference to glibc version in NOTES
>
> recv.2
> send.2
> Nicholas Hunt
> Adjust type shown for msg_controllen to glibc reality
> This patch fixes the type of msg_controllen in the struct
> msghdr definition given in send.2 and recv.2 to match the definition in
> glibc and the kernel.
>
> select.2
> Michael Kerrisk
> Update NOTES on old glibc pselect()
> Make it clear that modern glibc uses the kernel pselect()
> on systems where it is available.
> See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14411
>
> statfs.2
> Guillem Jover
> Fix copy & paste error for __SWORD_TYPE definition
>
> sysfs.2
> Michael Kerrisk
> Clarify that this syscall is obsolete.
> And strengthen recommendation to use /proc/filesystems
> instead.
>
> write.2
> Michael Kerrisk
> Add EDESTADDRREQ error
>
> a64l.3
> Peng Haitao
> Fix error in NOTES, s/a64l/l64a/
>
> error.3
> Linus Nilsson
> Change "perror" to "strerror" in DESCRIPTION of error()
>
> mq_send.3
> Michael Kerrisk
> Fix EAGAIN description (s/empty/full)
>
> initrd.4
> Yuri Kozlov
> Fix IP address in explanation of NFS example
>
> tzfile.5
> Michael Kerrisk
> Add information on version 2 format timezone files
> Updated using information from the tzcode 2010l release at
> ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub.
> (It's an open question whether or not a version of tzfile.5
> should live independently in man-pages. It was added to the
> man-pages set many years ago. For now, I'll follow a
> conservative course that causes least pain to downstream,
> by continuing to maintain a separate copy in man-pages.)
>
> See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594219
>
Signoff i686
I also confirm #20645 is fixed here
--
Guillaume
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